Airports & Chocolates
Oct 11, 2013, 9:22 pm
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Airports & Chocolates
Which airport duty free shops have folks discovered great chocolates for gift-giving? When I was a kid, my uncle gave me a flower-shaped chocolate while connecting through AMS. While it is difficult to find liquor-filled chocolate in the States, I have found them in the past at the SYD and LGW duty-free shops.
Oct 11, 2013, 9:33 pm
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Airports & Chocolates
As you might imagine, Brussels Intl has a large selection, both in duty free and dedicated chocolate shops. Booze-filled, you name it! AMS still good too.
Oct 12, 2013, 6:52 am
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Brussels is overrun with corporate Chocolate shops masquerading as boutique, and they're what you'll tend to find at BRU. The chocolates are certainly head and shoulders above most all US chocolate, but still not the same as the true artisinal chocolates you'll find if you shop carefully at small shops in town.
Oct 13, 2013, 9:38 am
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Shiroi Koibito Langue de Chat
http://www.ishiya.co.jp/sp/item/shiroi/
White chocolate sandwiched in cats tongue biscuits
For me they just have the edge over the Yoku Moku chocolate biscuits. Just. Mmmmm... Yoku Moku...
Shiroi Koibito Langue de Chat
http://www.ishiya.co.jp/sp/item/shiroi/
White chocolate sandwiched in cats tongue biscuits
For me they just have the edge over the Yoku Moku chocolate biscuits. Just. Mmmmm... Yoku Moku...
Oct 14, 2013, 5:51 am
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Brussels is overrun with corporate Chocolate shops masquerading as boutique, and they're what you'll tend to find at BRU. The chocolates are certainly head and shoulders above most all US chocolate, but still not the same as the true artisinal chocolates you'll find if you shop carefully at small shops in town.
Oct 14, 2013, 4:22 pm
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Airside chocolate is very expensive in Germany relative to real world German pricing. Fortunately, there are two Edeka and one Müller at MUC landside which are easy to reach on a layover. FRA has two grocery stores (the Rewe City is the better of the two, but neither are as convenient as the stores at MUC) The ordinary, run of the mill chocolate tends to be considered head and shoulders above American chocolate, but it's to us just ordinary. There are however great ranges of midrange chocolate including a good variety of alcohol filled ones.
And not on airport, but if near SZG then one can make a quick run across the border to the Reber factory where they have a kiosk onsite including factory seconds.
It's all relative as I've never found anything worthwhile at AMS or BRU for instance, yet some of you seem to rave about it.
And not on airport, but if near SZG then one can make a quick run across the border to the Reber factory where they have a kiosk onsite including factory seconds.
It's all relative as I've never found anything worthwhile at AMS or BRU for instance, yet some of you seem to rave about it.
Oct 14, 2013, 5:39 pm
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Why shucks, I guess I'm just not as soffistercated as y'all Yuropeans, but I've found some of the Belgian brands such as Galler or Daskalides entirely sufficient to my airport needs. They're cheaper there than in the US, and they're not that easy to find here. And although I'm kind of surprised to hear that Laurent Gerbaud, Pierre Marcolin, et al aren't actually on the premises at BRU lovingly hand-crafting pralines, I'm afraid they're out of my price range, anyway.
Oct 14, 2013, 8:16 pm
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I'm not above eating midrange chocolate (and will admit to having a Jeff de Bruges in front of me at the moment which is a hazard of having one down the road from my flat), but I just won't bother wasting calories on the really ordinary stuff.
And as someone mentioned upthread, a lot of what is sold in airports is pretty mediocre, found almost anywhere type of chocolate, especially in the duty free.
And as someone mentioned upthread, a lot of what is sold in airports is pretty mediocre, found almost anywhere type of chocolate, especially in the duty free.